{"id":313218,"date":"2019-06-11T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313218"},"modified":"2019-06-11T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T08:49:27","slug":"bjp-mp-dr-virendra-kumar-will-be-protem-speaker-of-17th-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-mp-dr-virendra-kumar-will-be-protem-speaker-of-17th-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP MP Dr Virendra Kumar will be protem speaker of 17th Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/virendra-kumar-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/virendra-kumar-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/virendra-kumar-452x420.jpg 452w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/virendra-kumar.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dr Virendra Kumar will be the Protem Speaker of the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar is the lawmaker from\u00a0Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh. He was the minister of state in the ministry of women and child development and MoS in the minority affairs ministry in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s previous government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the interim speaker, Dr Kumar will administer the oath of office to newly elected Lok Sabha members and also preside over the first meeting of the 17th Lok Sabha, in which the Speaker will be elected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first session of 17th Lok Sabha will begin on June 17.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dr Virendra Kumar will be the Protem Speaker of the 17th\u00a0Lok Sabha. Kumar is the lawmaker from\u00a0Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh. He was the minister of state in the ministry of women and child development and MoS in the minority affairs ministry in Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s previous government. As the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11480,11479],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313220,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313218\/revisions\/313220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}